Windows for Workgroups and BPQ
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The assumption is that you are starting with WfW V3.11
configured to use an NDIS network driver and that your aim is
to be able to use BPQ with the same ethernet card as you use for
your Windows networking.

You need a copy of LSL.COM and a suitable driver for your
network card - NE2000.COM or whatever. Some versions of LSL
seem to give problems with BPQ, I use v2.01. (LSL is a Novell
program).

1. Run Network Setup.

2. Click "Drivers..."

3. Highlight the network card and click "Setup..."

4. Set "Driver Type" to "ODI Driver".

5. Click "Ok", "Close", "Ok".

6. WfW now asks for some of your WfW disks, installs a few
files from them and then creates a NET.CFG file, it's probably
best to create it in your BPQ directory.

7. At the "Restart Computer" or "Continue" option, select
"Continue" because at the moment you have network support which
doesn't work.

8. Close Windows and edit AUTOEXEC.BAT so that it does roughly
the following:-

cd \bpq
lsl.com
REM load the card driver.
ne2000.com
c:\windows\odihlp.exe
odidrv 125
bpqcode
c:\windows\net start
etc...

Edit NET.CFG so it's something like the following. Obviously set
the driver and card info to suit your card.

Link Driver NE2000
   Port 220
   Int 11
   Frame Ethernet_802.2
   Frame Ethernet_II
   Frame Ethernet_802.3
   Frame Ethernet_SNAP

   Protocol BPQ 8FF Ethernet_II

Edit a port in BPQCFG.TXT to something like:-

PORT
ID=Ethernet
TYPE=EXTERNAL
INTLEVEL=125
MAXFRAME=4
TXDELAY=300
SLOTTIME=100
PERSIST=64
FULLDUP=1
FRACK=2000
RESPTIME=1000
RETRIES=10
PACLEN=255
QUALITY=10
UNPROTO=ID
ENDPORT

(Don't forget to run BPQCFG!)

Reboot the PC. It should all now work...

PLEASE NOTE - I am writing these notes some time after I first
set up BPQ with WfW, so my recollection of the problems which
occurred is a bit hazy. However, I can remember that sequence
was critical! So, if you can't get it to work, make sure that
the program load order in AUTOEXEC.BAT is the same as mine and
that the order of the frame types in NET.CFG is the same as
mine.


Roger Barker, G4IDE
roger@peaksys.co.uk

January 1997